main: make sure set_machine_id() doesn't clobber arg_machine_id on failure

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/main.c b/src/core/main.c
index fc04fb8051..fa02455c4a 100644
--- a/src/core/main.c
+++ b/src/core/main.c
@@ -291,14 +291,16 @@ static int parse_crash_chvt(const char *value) {
 }
 
 static int set_machine_id(const char *m) {
+        sd_id128_t t;
         assert(m);
 
-        if (sd_id128_from_string(m, &arg_machine_id) < 0)
+        if (sd_id128_from_string(m, &t) < 0)
                 return -EINVAL;
 
-        if (sd_id128_is_null(arg_machine_id))
+        if (sd_id128_is_null(t))
                 return -EINVAL;
 
+        arg_machine_id = t;
         return 0;
 }